Jane Gilmore Rushing
Rushing grew up in Pyron, a West Texas farming community now recognizable only by a cemetery and railroad sign.Most of her work centers on cotton farms and early ranches in a land she calls the “too-late frontier”.Her plots explore such sensitive topics as an affair between a mulatto girl and a West Texas cowboy and the painful recognition in an early-nineteenth-century community that one of their own is capable of child and wife abuse.Her final book, Starting from Pyron, explores the history and people of the community she grew up in and that inspired her writing.She was survived by her husband Jay (since deceased) and her son, James Arthur, Jr., a German Language professor at Rutgers University.